Reception and Memory

A Cognitive Approach to the <i>Chansons de geste</i>
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-420-3042-8
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 349, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

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This book is the first cognitive literary analysis in the field of medieval French literature. As such, it focuses on the question of audience in the Old French epic poems known as chansons de geste. Bringing to bear evidence from historical, literary, and manuscript sources, from the perspective of cognitive theory, Leverage demonstrates that there were multiple, complex audiences of the poems, and that common to each was a more personal, engaged, emotive relationship with the poems than has been recognized previously. Central to the audience’s experience of the poems and to the aesthetic of the genre, is memory, both in the sense of a cognitive process and as a theory that has occupied the interest of rhetoricians and philosophers from Antiquity to the present. The book is of interest to medievalists, cognitive theorists, and cognitive scientists working in memory-based text processing.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Reception of the Chansons de geste: The Medieval Model
The Codicology and Transmission History of the Manuscripts
Reception of the Chansons de geste: The Modern Model
Medieval Memory Theory and the Epic Aesthetic
A Remembering Audience
An Aesthetic of Division and Repetition
Repetition Effects
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts
General Index